Confronting

Examples

• This was the speediest way to reinforce Warren who was confronting the enemy on both the Orange plank and turnpike roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The only army Santa Anna had to protect his capital and the mountain passes west of Vera Cruz, was the one he had with him confronting General Taylor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The two armies had been confronting each other so long, without any decisive result, that they hardly knew which could whip. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During three long years the Armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia had been confronting each other. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Tom by this time had gained his feet, and was confronting his master with a steady, unmoved front. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• On the 25th of June General Burnside had commenced running a mine from about the centre of his front under the Confederate works confronting him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The solid darkness confronting him drove him mad. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At this point Wheeler, who had been ordered from Tennessee, arrived and swelled the numbers and efficiency of the troops confronting Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• While at Columbia, Sherman learned for the first time that what remained of Hood's army was confronting him, under the command of General Beauregard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I knew that Johnston was receiving reinforcements from Bragg, who was confronting Rosecrans in Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had Johnston confronting him; but with an army much inferior to his own, both in numbers and morale. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Plainly confronting me--my own name. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As if pressed back by some hand, she stood away, watching him all the time without changing, like a neutralised angel confronting him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When out of the way these latter corps followed, leaving pickets confronting the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the National side the forces confronting him were divided into, at first three, then four separate departments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the most important consideration in my mind was to have a force confronting Pemberton if he should come out to attack my rear. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He rode on to Farmville and was on his way back again when he found his return cut off, and Washburn confronting apparently the advance of Lee's army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That was my first thought, though I shrank selfishly from confronting it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• General Johnston, as has been stated before, was in North Carolina confronting General Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My moving force at that time was about 30,000 men, and I estimated the enemy confronting me, under Pemberton, at about the same number. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I would rather not see it confronting me in plain black and white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This time I succeeded in raising my eyes to the level of the deck, where I could take a careful survey of the conditions immediately confronting me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The enemy confronting Sherman, now seeing everything to their left giving way, fled also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We did not catch them napping, but found a well-entrenched battle line confronting us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• In the midst of the brilliant discoveries of modern times confronting us on every side we should not forget the honourable efforts of the fathers of the science. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Humphreys was alone, confronting him all through the day, and in a very hazardous position. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I again ordered Meade up with all dispatch, Sheridan having but the one corps of infantry with a little cavalry confronting Lee's entire army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This left Hancock without an enemy confronting him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Another serious difficulty confronting Edison and his associates was that nowhere in the world were there to be purchased any of the appliances necessary for the use of the lighting system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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